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Veteran actor Kamal Haasan on Wednesday launched his political party and the party Flag at Othakadai in Madurai among a sea of supporters. Haasan’s party is named Makkal Needhi Maiam which in Tamil means ‘Centre for People’s justice’.
Kamal Haasan hoisted and unveiled the party flag -three in red and three in white - joined together around a star on a white background.
Haasan was joined by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, AAP leader and former Delhi Minister Somnath Bharti who is the...

Weddings never fail in providing ladies with a chance to pamper themselves and get all decked up in pretty dresses to flaunt among their family and friends. With every girl going for dark colours lately, Bollywood beauties defied the trends and nailed white outfits at Mohit Marwah's wedding.
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Created by ace designer Manish Malhotra, Karisma Kapoor, Khushi Kapoor and Kiara Advani were looking...

Marvel's latest presentation 'Black Panther' is breaking box-office records all around the globe with the grown-up superhero action and earth-shattering entertainment. However, the Indian Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) couldn't refrain themselves from adding an unnecessary beep to the Ryan Coogler directorial.
If reports are to be believed, Censor Board has bleeped the "Glory to Hanuman!" statement uttered by Black Panther's rival M'Baku during his tribal pray. While the mention of an...

Out of 53,000 cyber attacks in India, 40% of them were focused on the financial sector in 2017. This statistic puts us in the seventh spot in the list of targeted countries in Web Application Attacks, according to a report from Akamai Technologies.
Phishing, website intrusions and defacements, virus and ransomware were some of the security incidents targeted the Banking, Financial services and Insurances (BFSI) sector in India.
Akamai Technologies, who made this report, claimed the key motive of...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina advised India not to worry about Dhaka’s growing ties with China. Interacting with a delegation of visiting Indian journalists at her official residence on Tuesday, she said Bangladesh's relations with Beijing are being extended only for the development of the country.
“I will rather suggest India should have good relations with its neighbours, including Bangladesh, so this region could be developed further and we can show the world that we all work together,”...

The Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, on Wednesday, said he expects the divestment process of public carrier Air India to be completed within a year. "We hope that by the end of the year we will be able to finish the divestments," the minister said, adding: "Government has given us Air India specific alternate mechanism (for disinvestment)... which is headed by the Finance Minister. I am also a member of it to guide the whole process." On February 2, Minister of State for Civil...

NASA Announces Job Opening, Duty: Defend Earth From Aliens

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August 3 , 2017 , 13:10 IST

As the search for extra-terrestrial life forms continues, there is also a possibility that such life forms, more colloquially known as aliens, are searching for us as well. To safeguard against such 'invasions', NASA has announced a job opening, for the post of Planetary Protection Officer who will be tasked with the duty to defend earth from aliens. The salary for selected officer will be in the range of $124,406 (Rs 79 lakhs) to $187,000 (Rs 1.1 crore) per year.

According to NASA "Planetary protection is concerned with the avoidance of organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration. NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies, and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration."

Essentially, the focus will remain on not allowing Earth to be contaminated by extraterrestrial organisms and vice versa.

Upon being selected for the role, the candidate will serve in the position for 3-5 years. As of now, there are only two such planetary protection officers in the world, one who works with the European Space Agency, and the second is Catharine Conley currently holding the position with NASA.

The position came into existence when US ratified the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 of which the Article IX called for signers of the treaty to ensure that “harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter” is avoided.

Basic qualifications for the post is broad engineering expertise along with advanced degrees in a physical science or math. Also required is at least one year of experience in working with top-level civilian government work. Sadly for Indian dreamers, the position available only to US nationals.